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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFi'cE.

JARED C. BLACKMAN, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ELVIRA L. STRONG, OF SAME PLACE.-

MEDICAL COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,153, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed October 30, 1882 (No specimens.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JARED (J. BLACKMAN, a'citizen ot' the United States, residing at Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful composition of matter for the treatment of various diseases hereinafter specified, which said composition of matter 1 compound and prepare in the form of lozenges, pills, or powder, and of which this is a specification.

My composition consists of the followingingredients, combined substantially in the proportions stated, viz: spirits of turpentine, four and one-half gills; balsam of tolu, onefourth of an ounce; castor-oil, one-fourth of a gill; flour of gum-arable, one-half of a pound; oil of hemlock, one-sixteenth of an ounce; tar, onesixteenth of an ounce; balsam of fir, one-fourth of a gill; fluid extract of sarsaparillu, one-half of an ounce; salt butter, onefourth of a pound; resin, two pounds; flour ot' slippery elm, three and one-half pounds; corn-starch, three-fourths of a pound; wheatfiour, three-fourths of a pound; sugar, twelve pounds; condensed milk, one pound; oil of origanum, one-fourth of an ounce. 'Theoils, balsams, turpentine, tar, sarsaparilla, butter, gum-arabic, and resin are melted and thoroughly mingled by agitation, then cooled and incorporated with the sugar and condensed milk, then desiccated by a mixture with the flour of slippery elm, wheat-flour, and cornstarch, and molded into the form of lozenges or pills or left in the form of a powder. This medicine is intended to be taken internally by the person using it in the treatment of diseases hereinafter specified. Each lozenge contains from one to four drops of the liquid, according to the size of the, lozenge, and each pill one drop of such liquid, and each grain of the powder one drop, and either of these compounds when administered to the patient is to be administered in quantities having reference to his or her age, constitution, and nature and severity of the disease; but not more than six lozenges or four pills or four grains of the powder are to be administered at one time, and not more than three times a day to adults, and to children not more than two-thirds of the above quantity at one time and not more than three times a day, except that in either case, it the etleetis notperceptible after the ad ministration of a dose, the dose may be incrensedat each administration thereafter until that result shall be attained.

It is impossible to prescribe rigid rules for before specified, said composition consisting of spirits of turpentine, balsam ot' tolu, castoroil, flour of gum-arable, oil of hemlock, tar, balsam of fir, fluid extract of sarsaparilla, oil of origanum, salt butter, resin, flour of slippery elm, corn-starch, wheat-flour, sugar, and condensed milk, in substantially the proportions specified.

JARED o. BLACKMAN.

Witnesses:

TIMOTHY J ONES.

DAVID B. BOOTH. 

